ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,373, issued on May 5, was assigned to Airbus SAS (Blagnac, France) and Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Propulsion assembly for an aircraft" was invented by Nandakumar Devasigamani (Toulouse, France), Lionel Czapla (Toulouse, France) and Jorge A. Carretero Benignos (Taufkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propulsion assembly having a fairing, a combustion chamber housed in the fairing, an exhaust nozzle delimited by a nozzle wall, a dihydrogen tank, a double-walled supply duct between the tank and the combustion chamber that has an inner wall delimiting an inner volume for the circulation of the dihydrogen and, ...